Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita

Le Mexicain barbu

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June 30, 12:55 PM GMT

Estimate

24,000 - 34,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector, Spain

Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita

1886 - 1968

Le Mexicain barbu

signed Foujita and in Japanese, dated 1933 Mexico (centre left) and dedicated a mon ami Fernandez de Castro (upper left)

watercolour and brush and ink on paper

36.8 by 33cm., 14½ by 13in.

Framed: 54 by 50cm., 21¼ by 19¾in.

Executed in Mexico in 1933.

Acquired by the present owner circa 1985

Sylvie Buisson, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2001, vol. II, no. 33.56, illustrated p. 337